A Distributed Graduate Seminar to Analyze the Priorities, Obstacles, and ...

A Distributed Graduate Seminar to Analyze the Priorities, Obstacles, and Opportunities That Exist For the Implementation of State Wildlife Action Plans This project is part of a distributed graduate seminar (DGS) funded by the National Council for Science and the Environment’s Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program. The aim was to analyze State Wildlife Action Plans (SWAPs) with the following overarching question: How do conservation science, social, and institutional processes come together to set state and regional conservation priorities and the design and implementation of conservation solutions across the U.S.? Following characterization of the SWAPs in a pilot study, students from eight universities participated in the DGS and synthesized implementation of the SWAPs based on interviews with state agency plan coordinators and stakeholders. The DGS summarized challenges and opportunities in implementation of SWAPs and recommended ways to improve planning and implementation processes. Students from UCSB also analyzed SWAPs to compare states in terms of their emphasis on wildlife movement corridor conservation. The plans varied considerably in the level of attention to wildlife movement corridors. Thus far the plans have had little influence on corridor conservation planning or implementation in the western U.S.

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Google Video | April 30, 2008

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